Special Lectures

“Religious Toleration and Imperialism during the Restoration: The Case of John Dryden"

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“Lucifer Liberty and Light: George Orwell and John Milton"

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“Poetry out of bounds. Pamphlet culture and poetry in the anarchy of the civil war public sphere"

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“Reading Jeanette Winterson and Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”

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 "To the Lighthouse: The Mother in the Garden"

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"Wales: Its History and Identity"

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"June Whitfield and how British sitcom endorsed and undermined cultural norms of feminity and domesticity from the 1960s to the early 21st Century"

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"Storms and Teacups: Thomas Hardy's Quiet Catastrophes"

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“Metadrama and Metatheatre in Hamlet”

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“Getting Sucked into Books: A Literary History of Immersion”

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“Strange Meetings: Truces and Exchanges with the Enemy in the Long Nineteenth Century”

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"Reading for Happiness"

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“Literary Atlas: exploring digital literary geographies”

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“Shakespearean Passages to and from India: Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider (2014) and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram-Leela (2013)”

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"Post-Industrial Melancholia: the Brexit vote in Wales" & "Imaging the Internal Colony – vision and narrative in Raymond Williams’s Border Country"

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„James Kelman: Working-Class Selves and Radical Narrative in The Busconductor Hines (1984)"

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„Reading the Early Modern Diary"

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„The Split Self in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey“

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„Towards a Room of Her Own: Locating the Ageing Woman in Late Victorian and Edwardian Fiction“

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„Representations of Italy in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Queer Culture“

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„The Representation of Trauma in Gail Jones's Black Mirror (2002), Sixty Lights (2004) and Sorry (2007)“

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„Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Writers and the Popular Press“

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(Br)exits and Entrances: Britishness and the Four Nations post-1945

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Angela Carter and Second Wave Feminism workshop

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Wales post-Brexit workshop

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Crafting the 19th-Century Drawing-Room Stage

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Fears and Phobias in late 19th-Century Culture

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”Plenty of Woman Candidates Required!” - The London School Board in 19th-Century Women Periodicals

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Ageing Women in Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Literature: Emerging Discourses and Identities

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“A People Taut for War”?: 20th-Century Welsh War Writing

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Beyond Nature Writing: Concepts of Cultural Ecology in Thomas Hardy

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“A Modest Proposal”: Bloomsbury as the Target of Wyndham Lewis's Satire “The Apes of God”

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“Another great migration”: Travel, Emigration and Imperialism in George Eliot’s Late Works

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"Tangible Pasts: The Novel and the Material Histories of Antiquarianism, 1700 - 1820"

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"Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Cottingley Fairies: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Networks of Fiction, Science and Religion"

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"The whites have become black" - Responses to the English Riots of 2011, Critical Whiteness Studies and the Trouble with 'New Ethnicities'

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The Symbolic Impact of Women’s Representation on Citizen’s Political Attitudes: Measuring the Effect through Survey Experiments

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The Amateur and the Theatrical Marketplace: Lacy’s and French’s Acting Editions of Plays

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Nineteenth-Century Women’s Periodicals

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Reworkings of the Actaeon Myth in Renaissance Literature

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The Politicisation of the British Museum during the Nineteenth Century

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Crossover Fiction and the Adolescent Economy of Writing in the Works of Margo Lanagan

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Poetry Reading and Film Screening

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Contemporary British Poetry and the Environment: The Quality of Attention

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Trauma in Northern Irish Poetry: Expressing the Ungraspable

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Reading the Palimpsests of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

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Questioning Rape Narratives in Contexts of Transitional Justice: Post-Yugoslav and Post-Apartheid South African Literatures

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The Law of the Land: Legal Geography, Daniel Defoe’s A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain and the British Union

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The Miltonian Eternal Conflict as a Storytelling Device in British Twentieth-Century Fantasy

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Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

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Comedy and Mass Media in Post-War Britain

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Office Work and Occupational Health: The Case of Postal and Telegraph Clerks in Victorian Britain

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Sticks, Skins, Beards and Bulbs: Artificial Mothers and the Matter of Fiction

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YA Literature: Jugendliteratur, Literaturvermittlung und transnationale Buchmärkte

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Culture in British Cultural Studies

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Spenser's Ireland, Ireland's Spenser: Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Elizabethan Legacy

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Other Stories: Strangers and Intrusions in Ali Smith's Fiction

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Early Modern Literature and Political Thought: Shakespeare, Lipsius, Montaigne

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Anne Clifford's Great Books: A Transformative Narrative of Identity and Place

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An Introduction to Sikhism and its Place in the UK today

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The 1916 Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebrations

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Debate Strategies in Early Modern Dialogue

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Adaptations of Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"

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Science and Gender in "Sherlock"

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Scottishness and Scots Law: Nationhood and the Law in Great Britain in the Eighteenth Century

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The Eternal Conflict in Literature, Film and Games

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Social Economics in South African Literature for Adolescents

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Envisioning the British Colony: Inverse Perspectives and Blurring Identities in Saki's "When William Came"

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Renaissance Literary Careers

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Tangible Pasts: Literature and Antiquarianism in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

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Dylan Thomas as a WWII War Poet: Flowers, Bodies, Terrors

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Writing Conflict 1934-37

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The Lion Dies for the Lamb: Revisiting Edmund Spenser, C.S. Lewis, and Disney's Lion King

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"Do they read Castle Rackrent in the trenches?" Anglo-Irish Identity, The Great War and the Big House

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Women in the Post-Apartheid Novels of Nadine Gordimer

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"I'm going to Gretna Green": Clandestinity, Scots Law and British Courtship Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Benefits and Books: The Welfare System and it Literary Response in Scotland 1980 - 2014

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Private Theatricals and the English Middle Class, 1870 - 1900

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(In)visible Monarchs: a Media-historic Analysis of Female Royal Icons in Painting and Photography from Queen Victoria to Duchess Catherine

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Problems of Identity: Language, Race and Nationhood in the Literatures of Wales

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Weaponised Refuse: The City, Identities and Resistance in British Future-War Fiction 1871 - 1914

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Motherland?: Gendered Constructions of Wales in art and poetry

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Early Modern 'Science Fiction' (Francis Godwin, Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon)

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Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis'  and the Vicissitudes of Intertextuality

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Facing up to Reality: Recent Developments in South Africa's Literature for the Young

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'Am I not a Man and a Brother?' Würde, Sympathie, und weibliche Partizipation in der britischen Anti-Sklaverei-Bewegung, 1780 - 1830

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Verbrechen und "the criminal mind" im (Neo)Viktorianismus

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Woolf's Signifying Dog and the Missing Lynx: Animalous Readings in Poe, Woolf, Lacan and Derrida

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New Interactive Literatures: Reworking Ideas of the Epic in RPG Video Games

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(Re-)Writing Ireland's Great War: Frank McGuinness and Dermot Bolger

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Fictional(ized) Outdoor Documentaries or the Wilderness Home Tour

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Late Victorian and Edwardian Invasion Fiction and its Imperial Contexts

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Regulating Law and Literature: The 1753 Marriage Act and the Novel

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Places of Meaning, Ways of Knowing: Sense-Making in the Sensation Novel

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Grandmothers' Dreams: Heredity and Replication in D. H. Lawrence and Henry James"

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Looking for 'Eve Smith': Female Responses to Political Economy, c. 1790 - 1840

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Faculties losing their balance? The Working of Obsessive Reading in Sensation Novels

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Representations of Space in South African Youth Fiction of the New Millenium

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The World is What We Make It: Humanity, Technology, and the Environment in Recent Steampunk Fiction

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Broken Engagements. The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800 - 1940

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Krankheit als Topos in der zeitgenössischen Kunst

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Puerperal Insanity and Infanticide in Women's Writing in Britain in 1890s

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Quantifying Desire, Qualifying Disease - Don Juanism and Nymphomania in Spanish Literature and Cinema

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Going Wild: Exploring Constructions and Motifs of Wilderness in Contemporary British Literature

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Ein richtiger Indianer ? Kranke Jungen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

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Diseases from the Belly to the Heart: Sex an Gender Matter!

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Ageing and Mortality in Dickens and Wilde

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Of He-Nurses and She-Doctors: Fighting and Writing Yellow Fever in the American South

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Obstetrics and Gynecology in Uganda

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Disastrous Birth-Nights: Childbed and Child-Birth in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Reflections on Gender and Medicalization

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Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year, Gender and Historical Culture

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The Dragon's Two Tongues: Literature and Language Politics in Contemporary Wales

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Gender Differences in Immune-Related Disorders

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Gender Differences in Renal Diseases and Renal Transplantation

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Krankheit als Heil? Genderperspektiven auf das Opfer der Gesundheit in der Literatur des Mittelalters

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Fashionable Disease and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Risky Life Style or Risky Genes? Health Differences between Men and Women

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Österreichischer Rundfunk, Radio Ö1 Wissenschaft: 'Vererbung' zwischen Biologie und Kultur

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The texture of her nerves and the palpitation of her heart: Vocation, Hysteria, and the 'Surplus Female' in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medical Dscourse

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The Boys of St. Columb's

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A  Boethian Paradigm in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde": Some formal and verbal evidence

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Was there a Victorian "Double Standard" of Ageing?

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The Unnatural Youth of the Old "New Woman

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Senile Sexuality

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The New Old Man and the Neutral Man-Woman: Gender and Ageing in Victorian Fiction

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The Invention of the "Ageing" Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century: Late Style and German Critics

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The True Morality of Fiction: Ageing Truths in Some Writings by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Exhausting the Powers of Life": Ageing, Energy and Productivity in Nineteenth-Century Scientific and Literary Discourses

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Worst Agers: Children as Old People in Victorian Fiction

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Poor Mother's Gowing Old: The Representation of Ageing and Old Age in 'The Girl's Own Paper' (1880 - 1900)

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Freedom of Testation in Victorian England

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The World Is All Being Remade: Intergenerational Conflict in J.M. Barrie's War Plays 

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Old Age and the Transatlantic Indian: Cross-Racial Mentorship in Narratives of National Belonging

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The fin-de-siècle's Literary and Scientific Discovery of Ageing

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Re-assessing the "Old" in the Lives and Afterlives of Arnold Bennett's 'The Old Wives' Tale'

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A Respectful Challenge to the Nineteenth-Century's View of Itself: An Argument for the Early Modern Medicalization of Old Age

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The Political Uses of Forgetting: Nationalist Nostalgia on the Jacobean Stage

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Aspects of Gender in Irish War Literature

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Real Wilderness? - Exploring Ideas of Wilderness and Authenticity in Contemporary British Fiction

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Why has the New Woman never a word to say for herself on the stage? Feminism and the English Theatre in the 1890s

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The Prison House of Historiography - Objects Lost and Found in the Novels of Sarah Waters

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What Is It Like To Be A Rat? Early Cold War Glimpses of the Post-Human

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Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: From Research to Novel, Play Script to Stage Performance

Förderung [mit Peter Waller]: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

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Diana Wynne Jones: Witch Week. Alterity in an (Anti-)School Story

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Wie ähnlich ist uns der Affe, dies äußerst scheußliche Tier! Darwins "Affentheorie" im Spiegel der Viktorianischen Kinderliteratur

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Sensational Strategies: Women's Authorship, Editorship and Performance in the Victorian Press;

Förderung [mit Katharina Boehm]: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

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'No house but mine to make your scene?' Urbane Schwellenräume, Diagnosen des Stadtkörpers und symbolische Geschlechterordnungen in frühneuzeitlichen City Plays

 

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Gender Confusion and the Dominant Female Voice in Jeanette Winterson’s Novels: The Passion (1987), Written on the Body (1992), Gut Symmetries (1997) and the PowerBook (2000)

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'Double Colonization' and Female Authorship

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Medusenaugen und Sirenenstimmen. Zum Problem der Autorschaft in der Moderne (Nietzsche - Kafka - Freud)

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Paul Klee und die sexuelle Genese der Kunst

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Gendered Authorship in the Henry James Circle

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Little Savages, Dwarfs and Bottled Babies: Childhood, Popular Science and Literature in the Victorian Period

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'An insane desire to see the author': Herman Melville, Henry James and the Gendered Spaces of Nineteenth-Century Authorship

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Gendered Images of Creativity in Maupassant

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The Lake Poets: Romantic Subjectivities, Topography, and Authorship

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Dame Nature’s Imagination: Creation, Creativity and Gender in Early Modern Cabinets of Curiosities

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Music and the Irish Literary Imagination

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'Amaz'd we read of Nature's early Throes': Gender and (the) Creation in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

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Enlightenment Struggles over Gender and Creation: The Debates on Spleen

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Gender, Creation and Authorship in the Late Middle Ages

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Philomela, Gender, and Poetic Myths of Origin

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And ye shall know the truth, Or, The Gospel according to Darwin

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Imitation of Similar Beings: Social Mimesis as an Argument in Evolutionary Theory around 1900

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Against Genres: Shakespeare's Mingled Drama

Förderung: Vielberth-Stiftung, Regensburg

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WDR ZeitZeichen: 400. Geburtstag von John Milton

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Manufacturing Monsters: The Experiments of Professor Higgins and Dr. Moreau

Förderung [mit Rainer Emig]: Studieneinheit Gender Studies

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